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The Economic Way of Thinking 11ED
ISBN : 9780131543690
Descriptions
Learn to plan for college, retirement, saving, and more with ECONOMIC EDUCATION FOR CONSUMERS, the up-to-date book that will help you build your economic 'smarts' as a consumer. From online banking to taxes and recent changes in technology and how they affect your personal finance issues, this useful book uses real life situations to help you become a responsible consumer. Fascinating features such as Consumer Alert, What in the World?, Vote Your Wallet, Buy the Number$, Math of Money, Cyber Consumer, and Communicate take the monotony out of learning about economics, and journal activities connect the theme of each chapter and help you gain communication skills. And, a Life Span Plan Project links all aspects of personal finance to your own life.
Table of Contents
1. The Economic Way of Thinking
2. Efficiency, Exchange, and Comparative Advantage
3. Substitutes Everywhere: The Concept of Demand
4. Opportunity Cost and the Supply of Goods
5. Supply and Demand: A Process of Cooperation
6. Supply and Demand: Issues and Applications
7. Profit and Loss
8. Competition and Monopoly
9. Price Searching
10. Competition and Government Policy
11. The Distribution of Income
12. Externalities and Conflicting Rights
13. Markets and Government
14. The Overall Performance of Economic Systems
15. Employment and Unemployment
16. The Supply of Money
17. Monetary and Fiscal Policies
18. Economic Performance and Political Economy
19. National Policies and International Exchange
20. Promoting Economic Growth
21. The Limitations of Economics